David T
If you had met a certain grandchild of mine you would understand banana s
and hot dogs.
David C
On Wed, Jun 13, 2018, 6:47 AM David T. wrote:
> It looks as if Art has entered descriptive information into an account
> field. GnuCash will always ask if you want to create the nonexistent
> account (that’s a feature, BTW). Based on the sample string, you’d need to
> tab out of the account after “bananas”, put “Hot dog” in a memo
> (presumably), and the calculation into the amount field. Although, why
> you’d put hot dogs in an account for bananas is beyond me.
>
> David T.
>
> > On Jun 13, 2018, at 10:07 AM, David Carlson
> wrote:
> >
> > Here is a tip. When that (...) does not exist ... prompt appears, if you
> > do not know which transaction triggered it, click on the red x button to
> > close the file. this will bring up a prompt asking if you want to save
> > your changes to a certain named window, which may be an account name or
> > search results, for example. This will help you find the offending
> > transaction. Once you have the offending transaction in focus, delete
> all
> > the characters in the account field. then you will get a chance to exit
> the
> > transaction abandoning all changes. Now you can save the file and
> continue
> > entering data or close the file.
> >
> > David C
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 9:29 PM, Art via gnucash-user <
> > gnucash-user@gnucash.org> wrote:
> >
> >> I must've hit the wrong button somewhere because I keep getting this
> >> pop-up, Account ExpenseAccounts:Food:fruits:bananasHot dog 1.99*2 does
> >> not exist, would you like to create it, Yes/No?To which I answer, "No"
> but
> >> the pop-up just shows up again!I finally said, "Yes", then canceled the
> >> thing. That seems to have fixed the problem.
> >> I'm running GC 3.0 Build 2.6.17b-2765-g70e636646+(2018-04-01) under
> >> Ubuntu 17.10.This version has sticky fields. I.e., whenever I duplicate
> >> transactions, I have to click on the original so I can overwrite the
> text.
> >> Thanks,Art
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